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Re: Please apply this patch to 2.6.9 kernel.



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Jeff Bailey wrote:
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| Yes, because the kernel provides backwards compatability for syscalls.
| The problem is that the kernel doesn't provide headers for user space
| applications, so linux-kernel-headers is provided to give the absolute
| minimum needed for userspace applications to use.
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| We (the glibc folks) will probably update it after Sarge releases,
| though.
|

I did not know that linux-kernel-headers is built by the
glibc folks. By now I thought it is generated using the
kernel-package (make-kpkg kernel_headers).

Maybe it would be possible to add a build target for
linux-kernel-headers to the kernel-package?


Regards

Harri
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